As said when I opened this topic, I can't see major benefit in requiring Java 7 from a developer point of view (some syntactic sugar, few new API, what else ?), compared to huge benefit of Java 8 to review API design and extensibility
2015-03-24 11:36 GMT+01:00 Stephen Connolly <[email protected] >: > I think we could start looking at requiring Java 7 as a minimum for > Runtime of Jenkins... given that Maven 3.3.1 has moved its minimum runtime > to Java 7... if we want to bump the evil plugin version to use the Maven > 3.3.1 embedded jars we will have to bump Jenkins to require Java 7 as a > minimum... never mind that Java 7 goes EOL next month > > On 24 March 2015 at 10:33, James Nord <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rejoice! IBM AIX and z/OS now have a GA Java8 version. >> >> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21696670 >> >> Is it time to revisit this once more? >> >> /James >> >> >> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:20:35 UTC+1, Jesse Glick wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Mark Waite <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > I added a new test to the git client plugin which depended on a Java 7 >>> NIO >>> > feature. It failed to compile in my test configuration with Java 6. >>> >>> I think it is fine to require Java 7 in tests; there was already a >>> proposal which met with no controversy to require 7 for building >>> plugins, while continuing to use -target 6 and Animal Sniffer to >>> prevent accidental use of 7+ APIs or bytecode (*). Requiring 8 for >>> building plugins, and thus allowing -source 8 features in >>> src/test/java/**/*.java (**), would be a natural next step, a bit >>> controversial but much less so than requiring 8 for running Jenkins >>> itself. >>> >>> >>> (*) Of course this means functional tests do not find runtime problems >>> occurring on 6 despite lack of linkage errors. But the alternative of >>> running tests on 6 just means the reverse problem, that behavioral >>> changes in 7 which break the plugin are not caught; and this is worse, >>> since many more people will really be running on 7. >>> >>> (**) The upcoming version of Animal Sniffer allows you to skip checks >>> on test-scope dependencies. But it might not yet allow checks to be >>> skipped on src/test/java/**/*.java, which is not a dependency; will >>> need to look into it. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/c7fd3bd4-26f6-488f-a4bc-52bbf0a8dbad%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/c7fd3bd4-26f6-488f-a4bc-52bbf0a8dbad%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BnPnMy1JAFugQHay92Uj1WA%3DZF_uBOQcWQ%3DYWjKa0bJLm9n2w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BnPnMy1JAFugQHay92Uj1WA%3DZF_uBOQcWQ%3DYWjKa0bJLm9n2w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANMVJznmy08LYOn0VPMg%2Bkef84LCP72NhJakbKKKeqfiXD3DSw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
